Dr. Markus Schwerzmann, and the ACHD Team, are working to give patients a better future.
“As recently as the 1960s, only 20% of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) would live to see adulthood. Today, thanks to innovative breakthroughs, like those happening at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), many more of these patients have a 90% chance of living a full life.”
Gabriella would be lost without the ACHD clinic.
Asked to recall the year she was first diagnosed with congenital heart disease (CHD), Gabriella Hammond responds with a laugh, “They cut the cord, and I turned blue.”